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Roridomyces austrororidus (Singer) Rexer 1994

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Roridomyces austrororidus (Singer) Rexer 1994
Roridomyces austrororidus (Singer) Rexer 1994

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Present
New Zealand
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Also present in Australia

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Rexer
Singer
(Singer) Rexer
1994
140
ICNP
species
Roridomyces austrororidus

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austrororidus

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Omphalia stellata (Fries) (8,16) Fig. 25 = Mycena veronicae Stevenson

The identification of this material (COLENSO 545 b) is confirmed by the typical club-shaped cells in the cuticle filled with a brown cell sap, decurrent gills, and the ovoid spores.

CHILE: Osorno, Valle „Gol-Gol", Anticura, I April 1963, Horak (ZT 66/149). - Osorno, coastal forest near Pucatrihue, 30 April 1963, Horak (ZT 66/349). - NEW ZEALAND: Kelburn, 20 May 1958, V. Fell in herb. Stevenson-Cone (holotype of M. veronicae Stev., K). - New Zealand, Colenso b 545 (K). - Nelson, N of Collingwood, Pakawau Creek, 7 May 1968, Horak (ZT 68/390).
Pileus -20 mm, hemispherical or convex when young later becoming either depressed or subumbonate at centre, not distinctly umbonate, striate margin incurved, white, pale brownish, pale grey-brown or pale yellow-brown, centre covered with minute brown or black dots or squamules, membranaceous, dry. Lamellae (L6-l4, 1-3), arcuate-decurrent, white to pallid, edge albofimbriate, occasionally with subglutinous detachable thread. Stipe -50 / -2 mm, cylindric or slightly attenuated towards apex, white or pale grey-brown, glutinous when wet, pruinose in dry condition, hollow, single or in dense clusters. Odour and taste pot distinctive. Context pale brown beneath cuticle, white in stipe. Chemical reactions on pileus: KOH-negative. Spores 9-12 (12,5) / 6-8 µm., ovate to broadly elliptic, hyaline, smooth, amyloid. Basidia 28-40 / 9-13 µm, 4-spored. Cheilocystidia 40-80 / 3-9 µm., cylindric-subclavate to elongate-clavate, rarely elongate-fusoid, hyaline, thin-walled membrane. Caulocystidia similar. Cuticle a celluloderm of clavate cells (20-90 / 10-30 µm.), with brown plasmatic pigment. Clamp connections present.
On rotting leaves, bark and wood of trees (in New Zealand observed on Pinus. Leptospermum, Rhipogonum), rarely on herbaceous debris. Juan Fernandez (type), Chile, Argentina (Singer 1969: 1 19), New Zealand.
Singer (1959: I.e.); Stevenson (1964: I.e.) Horak (1971: 403).

According to Singer (1969: 119) the type material of M. austrororida is kept in S. However, despite intensive search, the type collection was not located there.

Based upon our present knowledge M. austrororida is distributed in the sub-antartic region East (Juan Fernandez, southern parts of Chile and Argentina) and West (New Zealand) of the Pacific Ocean. Careful macroscopical and microscopical observations showed that there are no distinctive differences between the specimens cited above (compare also Fig. 5 and 6), with one exception: the cheilocystidia of the South American collections are more clavate-subcapitate as the ones observed on New Zealand specimens. Concerning luminescence of the carpophores no information has been reported yet.

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Other collections at K Stevenson GS 641
Entirely white. Pileus truly membranaceous, convex, umbilicate, pellucidly striate, glabrous, 1-1.5 cm. across; gills decurrent, rather distant, thin, not triangular; spores elliptical, 6-7 X 4 µ; stem usually about 2 cm. long, very slender, fragile, stuffed, then hollow, often curved, base dilated and radially strigose or hairy.
Dannevirke, New Zealand. Europe.
On logs, stumps, &c.
Often gregarious. Distinguished by the semitranslucent white colour of every part, and the strigose base of the stem. Pileus frequently excentric.
Pileus 3-15 mm diam., pale olive fawn to whitish with fawn tint, hemispheric to plano-convex, becoming indistinctly sulcate-striate at margin smooth to velvety; flesh thin, fawn. Gills strongly decurrent, white with minutely fringed margins, moderately distant, with long and short intercalated. Stipe 1-2 cm. x 1-3 mm, white to pale fawn, glutinous, hollow-fragile, with or without a few spreading hairs at swollen base. Spores 10-11 x 6-8 µm, amyloid, thin-walled. Hymenophoral trama and tissue of pileus pseudoamyloid. Cheilocystidia hair-like to ovate, 20-30 x 5-10 µm. Cuticle with scattered swollen dermatocystidia, 20-35 x l5-20 µm, with grey contents (Fig. 56).
On fallen wood, Karori, Wellington, 12.6.1949, Stevenson; Silverstream, 21.4.1958, Helen Druce, Kelburn, 20.5.1958, Veronica Fell in Stevenson (type); Keith George Park, 7.6.1958, Stevenson.
Pileus 3-15 mm diam., pallide olivaceo-hinnuleus usque albus hinnuleo-tinctus, hemisphaericus usque plano-convexus, deinde margine indistincte sulcato-striatus, laevis usque velutinus; caro tenuis, hinnulea. Lamellae valde decurrentes, albae, marginibus minute fimbriatis, modice distantes, longiores cum brevioribus intercalatae. Stipes 1-2 cm x 1-3 mm, albus usque pallide hinnuleus, glutinosus, cavus, fragilis, basi tumida nonnunquam pilis paucis patentibus instructa. Sporae 10-11 x 6-8 µm, amyloideae, parietibus tenuibus. Trama hymenophoralis et pilei textura pseudo-amyloidea. Cheilocystidia piliformia usque ovoidea, 20-30 x 5-10 µm. Cuticula dermatocystidiis tumidis sparsis 20-35 x 15-20 µm instructa, materie inclusa grisea.
Typus: V. Fell in Stevenson 1324

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Mycena austrororida Singer 1962
Roridomyces austrororidus (Singer) Rexer 1994
Roridomyces austrororidus (Singer) Rexer (1994)

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Roridomyces austrororidus (Singer) Rexer 1994
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taxonomic status
Sequences indicate this is not congeneric with R. rorida and closer to Cruentomycena [JAC]

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26 January 2011
22 September 2014
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